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Trump Touts Seemingly Doctored Photo of Abrego Garcia's Hand in Attempt To Prove Maryland Man Is Gang Member

Apr 18th, 2025, 6:47 pm President Donald Trump posted a photo of himself holding a seemingly digitally altered image of the left hand of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported to El Salvador last month. Abrego Garcia is currently incarcerated in a prison in El Salvador despite a 2019 court order barring his removal to that country. Lawyers for the Trump administration initially admitted that the Maryland father of three was sent to El Salvador due to an “administrative error,” but th ...

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Trump Advisers Took Advantage of Navarro's Absence to Push for Tariff Pause

11h They needed to get the president alone. On April 9, financial markets were going haywire. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wanted President Trump to put a pause on his aggressive global tariff plan. But there was a big obstacle: Peter Navarro, Trump’s tariff-loving trade adviser, who was constantly hovering around the Oval Office. Navarro isn’t one to back down during policy debates and had stridently urged Trump to keep tariffs in place, even as cor ...

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For now, Pentagon and DHS won't recommend that Trump invoke the Insurrection Act

Published 4:25 PM EDT, Fri April 18, 2025 Washington CNN — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will not recommend invoking the Insurrection Act in a memo the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security are preparing to send to President Donald Trump about the conditions at the southern border, multiple US officials familiar with the matter tell CNN. The Insurrection Act is a 19th century law that would allow the president to use active-duty troops ...

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Trump ally pushes DoJ unit to shift civil rights focus, new messages show

Fri 18 Apr 2025 16.13 EDT Last modified on Fri 18 Apr 2025 16.14 EDT The justice department’s civil rights division is shifting its focus away from its longstanding work protecting the rights of marginalized groups and will instead pivot towards Donald Trump’s priorities including hunting for noncitizen voters and protecting white people from discrimination, according to new internal mission statements seen by the Guardian. The new priorities were sent to several sections of the civil rights ...

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'Raising alarms': Experts concerned as DOGE eyes tracking and surveillance system

April 18, 2025 8:18PM ET Tech billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency task force is now jumping into the fight to help with President Donald Trump's mass deportation project, Wired reported on Friday. "DOGE is knitting together immigration databases from across DHS and uploading data from outside agencies including the Social Security Administration, as well as voting records, sources say. This, experts tell WIRED, could create a system that could later be searched to ...

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Housing Secretary Lets Staff Go Home Early For Easter To Reflect On Jesus

“We go into this holy weekend with freedoms that the world has never known,” reads a department-wide email from Scott Turner’s chief of staff. Jennifer Bendery Apr 18, 2025, 01:39 PM EDT WASHINGTON – Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner told his thousands of federal employees that they can leave work early Friday in honor of Easter and Passover, sending them a brazenly religious message declaring “all men are endowed by their creator” with certain rights and referencing a t ...

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"They want to rob it": Former Social Security head says Musk, Trump are "wrecking" agency to raid it

Published April 18, 2025 9:00AM (EDT) The Social Security Administration delivers one of the most popular and widely relied-upon services in the country, but that doesn't mean it's always received five-star reviews. The SSA had a reputation for long processing times, overburdened customer support and inefficiency, but appeared to be turning around under the leadership of Administrator Martin O’Malley. The appointee of President Joe Biden oversaw a 68% dip in call wait time and a 24% decrease ...

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Judge won't take further steps to enforce his order in AP case against Trump administration

Updated 4:30 PM EDT, April 18, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to stop blocking The Associated Press from presidential events refused Friday to take immediate steps to get White House officials to comply — an incremental development in a two-month dispute between the global news agency and administration officials over access. The case, which has significant free-speech implications under the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment, centers on the gover ...

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Trump Administration May Be About To Send More Venezuelans To El Salvador Prison

In one case, a petition filed by immigrant detainees said the government’s supposed evidence for his gang membership included emojis he used online. Paul Blumenthal Apr 18, 2025, 01:01 PM EDT Lawyers for a group of Venezuelan immigrants detained at Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, Texas, filed emergency habeas petitions on Friday after reports from inside the prison indicated the Trump administration was about to remove them, potentially to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador. ...

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Senate Democrat presses Noem on Real ID deadline

04/18/25 2:19 PM ET Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) pressed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on the Real ID requirements being implemented in two weeks. The new measure requires individuals to provide a U.S. birth certificate or a U.S. passport, or a permanent resident card (green card) if they are a non-U.S. citizen, in order to obtain a compliant driver’s license. Applicants may also be asked to provide proof of their Social Security number and proof of residency. Reed wrote a Thursday let ...

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Trump administration makes major cuts to Native American boarding school research projects

6 min ago - Published 5:35 AM EDT, Sat April 19, 2025 AP — At least $1.6 million in federal funds for projects meant to capture and digitize stories of the systemic abuse of generations of Indigenous children in boarding schools at the hands of the U.S. g ... (CNN US/AP)

Oregon Democrat to travel to El Salvador to demand Abrego Garcia's release

55 min ago - 04/18/25 10:54 PM ET Rep. Maxine Dexter (D-Ore.) announced that she will travel to El Salvador to demand that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadorian national who was mistakenly deported from the U.S., be released from prison in the country. “A leg ... (The Hill)

'Raising alarms': Experts concerned as DOGE eyes tracking and surveillance system

1 hr ago - April 18, 2025 8:18PM ET Tech billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency task force is now jumping into the fight to help with President Donald Trump's mass deportation project, Wired reported on Friday. "DOGE is knitting together im ... (Raw Story)

Former President Bill Clinton returns to Oklahoma City 30 years after the bombing

1 hr ago - By SEAN MURPHY Updated 11:04 PM CDT, April 18, 2025 OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Thirty years after the deadliest homegrown attack in U.S. history, former President Bill Clinton will return to Oklahoma City on Saturday to remember the people who were ki ... (AP)

Arizona governor vetoes bill requiring local officials to help with federal immigration efforts

2 hrs ago - Updated 9:52 PM EDT, April 18, 2025 PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs on Friday vetoed a Republican-backed bill intended to support the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown by requiring local and state officials in Arizona ... (AP)

Trump Advisers Took Advantage of Navarro's Absence to Push for Tariff Pause

3 hrs ago - 11h They needed to get the president alone. On April 9, financial markets were going haywire. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wanted President Trump to put a pause on his aggressive global tariff plan. But ther ... (msn/WSJ)

Trump Touts Seemingly Doctored Photo of Abrego Garcia's Hand in Attempt To Prove Maryland Man Is Gang Member

3 hrs ago - Apr 18th, 2025, 6:47 pm President Donald Trump posted a photo of himself holding a seemingly digitally altered image of the left hand of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported to El Salvador last month. Abrego Garcia is currently incarcerate ... (MEDIAite)

Nonprofits Work to Fill the Climate Information Gap Left by Trump Cuts

4 hrs ago - Published Apr 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM EDT | Updated Apr 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM EDT On Tuesday, climate scientists briefed reporters on the latest monthly global temperature and climate data. They found that March 2025 was tied for the warmest March on reco ... (Newsweek)

Travel Warning for Journalists Entering US

4 hrs ago - Published Apr 18, 2025 at 10:36 AM EDT | Updated Apr 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM EDT The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has advised journalists traveling to the United States to take special precautions, citing growing concerns over potential new tra ... (Newsweek)

Labor Department sidelines staffers amid DOGE push for immigrant data

5 hrs ago - 04/18/2025 05:35 PM EDT Multiple employees at the Labor Department who handle sensitive data related to immigrant workers were placed on leave after run-ins with DOGE members according to five people familiar with the matter. Those placed on leave in ... (Politico)

Trump administration may form task force to handle China tariff impact

5 hrs ago - Updated on: April 18, 2025 / 5:01 PM EDT Trump administration officials, anticipating supply chain strains due to steep tariffs on Chinese goods, have discussed forming a working group to deal with the problems with urgency if there's no breakthrough ... (CBS News)

Trump-Allied Prosecutor Sends Letters to Medical Journals Alleging Bias

5 hrs ago - Trump-Allied Prosecutor Sends Letters to Medical Journals Alleging Bias An interim U.S. attorney is demanding information about the selection of research articles and the role of N.I.H. Experts worry this will have a chilling effect on publications. ... (New York Times)

For now, Pentagon and DHS won't recommend that Trump invoke the Insurrection Act

6 hrs ago - Published 4:25 PM EDT, Fri April 18, 2025 Washington CNN — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will not recommend invoking the Insurrection Act in a memo the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Securi ... (CNN Politics)

Trump ally pushes DoJ unit to shift civil rights focus, new messages show

6 hrs ago - Fri 18 Apr 2025 16.13 EDT Last modified on Fri 18 Apr 2025 16.14 EDT The justice department’s civil rights division is shifting its focus away from its longstanding work protecting the rights of marginalized groups and will instead pivot towards ... (The Guardian)

Supreme Court Halts, For Now, New Deportations Under 18th Century Wartime Law

8 hrs ago - The Supreme Court on Saturday blocked, for now, the deportations of any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th century wartime law. In a brief order, the court directed the Trump administration not to remove Venezuelans held in the Bluebonn ... (Huffington Post)

Tesla accused of messing with odometers to get out of repair bills

9 hrs ago - Tesla is facing a proposed class action suit over allegations that it has been speeding up odometers so its vehicles will fall out of warranty faster, according to a report by Reuters. This would make it easier for the company to get out of paying fo ... (Engadget)

Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard

12 hrs ago - April 18, 2025, 9:10 p.m. ET Harvard University received an emailed letter from the Trump administration last Friday that included a series of demands about hiring, admissions and curriculum so onerous that school officials decided they had no choice ... (New York Times)

Appeals court halts Boasberg's contempt proceedings against Trump administration

12 hrs ago - 04/18/25 8:31 PM ET A divided federal appeals court panel on Friday temporarily halted U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s contempt proceedings against the Trump administration over its deportation flights to El Salvador last month. The U.S. C ... (The Hill)

Judge Orders Tufts Student Detained By ICE To Be Brought To Vermont

12 hrs ago - Apr 18, 2025, 05:51 PM EDT | Updated 2 hours ago A Tufts University student from Turkey being held in Louisiana must be returned to New England by May 1 to determine whether she was illegally detained by immigration officials for co-writing an op-ed ... (Huff Post/AP)

Barbara Lee wins Oakland mayoral race

13 hrs ago - Barbara Lee is Oakland's next mayor. The former congresswoman took an insurmountable lead over her main opponent Loren Taylor, according to the latest results released Friday. Lee had more than 52% of the vote to Taylor's 47%. Oakland uses ranked-c ... (San Francisco Chronicle)

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